Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wellhub, a corporate wellness platform, as a Senior Backend Engineer in Brazil! Contribute to the CODE team, focusing on challenges and gamefication to enhance user engagement. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining backend services, collaborating with other teams, and leading architectural decisions. This role requires extensive experience in backend development, specific programming languages, and cloud-based architectures. Wellhub offers a flexible work environment, comprehensive benefits including health insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and opportunities for career growth. The company prioritizes employee wellbeing and fosters a supportive, inclusive culture.

Requirements

• Be a true team player who loves working towards both team and individual goals with at least 5 years of experience in web development
• Have experience designing and developing complex modern web applications
• Have experience in developing RESTful web services collaborating with front-end teams to create mocks, defining payloads and contracts
• Have experience with at least two different programming languages such as Go, Scala, Kotlin, or Java
• Have experience with SQL/NoSQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, understanding common use cases and performance pitfalls
• Have experience dealing with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS, etc., and an in-depth understanding of their use cases and pitfalls
• Be experienced in implementing prototypes and in practices and concepts such as MVP, A/B testing, and feature toggles for rolling-out features to production
• Have experience applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complex analysis
• Have experience with monitoring, observability, and KPIs tracking
• Have experience with microservices and high-volume distributed systems
• Have experience with Cloud-based architectures in the AWS
• Have strong communication skills, including verbal and written English and Portuguese
• Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline or equivalent practical experience
• Have the ability to work both autonomously and collaborate in a team environment
• Be a self-starter who can multi-task and adapt to a fast-growing organization
• Enjoy working on multiple priorities and projects
• Be tenacious and goal-oriented

Responsibilities

• Deliver timely, high-quality work
• Perform insightful pull-request reviews and build reusable code for future use
• Be data-driven and participate in and/or lead architectural decisions, share improvement opportunities, bring innovation to the table, and make sure design docs are up to date
• Interact with the product team and stakeholders to impact the business
• Ensure successful deliveries, and promote the long-term technical health of our journeys
• Take ownership of critical features, be accountable and possess a high level of ownership by following up on engineering and product KPIs
• Ensure a high bar on code quality standards, making sure devs are proud of their work
• Be a technical reference for your team, spread development best practices such as code review, pair programming, and TDD
• Mentor less experienced developers
• Take part in incident resolution and troubleshooting in the production
• Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and finding work-life balance

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience with System Integrations
• Have experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA and Confluence)
• Have experience in our Tech Stack in general

Benefits

• Health, dental, and life insurance
• Flexible hybrid and full remote work options; home office stipend and a monthly flexible work allowance
• Flexible schedule to adjust working hours based on personal schedule, time zone, and business needs
• Access to onsite gyms and fitness studios, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental health support, and more; Gold plan at no cost, and other premium plans significantly discounted
• Paid time off: Vacations after 6 months and 3 days off per year + 1 day off for each year of tenure (up to 5 additional days) + extra day off for your birthday
• 100% paid parental leave to all new parents and extended maternity leave
• Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth